Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Deluxe Slipcase Vol. 1 (Hardcover)

from Poquette

One day in the life of an android bounty hunter - that is the frame of this witty, philosophical science fiction novel, which was written in 1968 but is set in the year 2021. By 2021 colonization of Mars has been underway for several years - even before World War Terminus, which has turned planet...

from Kara

I'm a classic sci-fi kind of girl, and this is a classic sci-fi kind of book. The world has changed into something dramatically different than it is today, and there are androids and electric sheep (ha, surprise) and mood-altering machines. But the story, at its heart (and like lots of great scie...

from TheCriticalTimes

Is it science fiction or literary fiction? One thing is for sure, it is a great well thought through novel and was one of the first to make science fiction both main stream and accepted as a literary form of expression. We meet Decker a police employee who hunts Androids (Andys). It is somewhere ...

from bezoar44

Very different work than the movie. The two share some (not all) characters and plot events, but they operate on entirely different levels, backed by fundamentally different worldviews and concerns. The movie is an atmospheric action flick, with the desire for freedom as a main theme; the book is...

from DeltaQueen50

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick was a fantastic science fiction read with themes revolving around man's humanity. First published in 1968, this iconic novel is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco as bounty hunter Richard Deckard tracks down and "retires" runaway androids...